What is "confection"

Usage examples of "confection".

Likewise he shall have my cordial julep with a portion of this confection which we do call Theriaca Andromachi, which hath juice of poppy in it, and is a great stayer of anguish.

Guttmann is intelligent enough to have discounted two-thirds of these epic fables as the confections of French officers seeking an ethnic hero against the Anglophonic authorities.

In this confection was the smallest quantity of the extract of the poisonous atropa, and some Chinese drug unknown to me, the taking of which in time became a necessity of my being, but not till to-night did I know the contents of these drops or the awful power to which I am a slave.

Bostwick, who was hungry, picked up the bonbon dish that lay on the table beside him and ate the pink confection.

The next morning, after her brownfields testimony, Whitman improvised her final, creative step, a sort of icing on this confection.

And there on the right, the only commercial establishment permitted to function along the entire length of that exclusive thoroughfare, Crionet Chocolatier purveyed miraculous confections beyond the artistic range of even the best Exalted kitchens.

Scotch eggs, heaping platters of moussaka and falafel, trays piled high with tarts and confections, silver pitchers of tea, sherbets.

Condensation had beaded on the fuel tank of the Kawasaki, so that it looked like some sort of frosted confection in the streetlight.

Confections are commonly used by masters as rewards in the training and conditioning of their girls.

She liked the rituals of this O Bon Odori, a Japanese dance festival that let her dress up in a blue and white cotton ukata, feast on juicy BBQ squid, gingery pancakes and luscious mango shave ice, fried noodles, and sweetened bean confections.

Tyrant to everyone backstage except, perhaps, the chorus boys in the revivals of Romberg and Friml confections.

Until recently these fats, coconut stearine and others, could be ignored by the reputable chocolate makers as the confection produced by their use was inferior to true chocolate both in taste and in keeping properties.

In due course I achieve a crystal of a hundred dreams, and with these confections I hope to enthrall Duke Orbal.

A man dressed as a clergyman-and not just any clergyman, but a bishop, in his purple-enters and picks out a necklace-a gorgeous and glorious confection of diamonds and pearls, and pays for it with a dozen of the crispest hundred-dollar bills.

She set a small nosegay on the tray, a confection of stark black twigs with white ribbon stitched into tiny buds on them.